Bad Girl, Good Business

Mr. Waters Was Correct

Reading Time: 3 minutes “You should be a writer,” said Mr. Waters. He was my 11th grade English teacher at Jamaica High School*. My father obviously thought so too and he submitted one of my poems to the New Yorker when I was only 10. (It was rejected.) Two college professors encouraged me to write and gave me lots […]

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What Did You Read in 2016? The Top 10…From Narcissism to Booze to Pain to Nana-hood

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hmmmm…the final post of 2016.  And perhaps the final post on this laptop. It’s dying a slow death so I may splurge on a new “content machine” for 2017. I wrote more than 150 pieces this year (not counting the ones I contributed to other sites, including Huffington Post, Nightclub & Bar, Mogul, and my […]

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